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thirty movies hath november - Friday (1995)

2009-11-10T02:59:01Z

a lot can go down between thursday and saturday.. the first time I saw Friday, one of the reasons it made me laugh is because Ice Cube's character, Craig, looked and had expressions exactly like my brother. by now neither mr. Cube nor more bro...

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thirty movies hath november - La grande illusion (1937)

2009-11-09T02:21:01Z

English title: Grand Illusion part two of a doubleheader. part one was yesterday, and today is Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion: a war movie with no battle scenes, where friendships go across enemy sides, where the futility of war (any war) is n...

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thirty movies hath november - La règle du jeu (1939)

2009-11-08T02:41:27Z

English title: The Rules of the Game, though a literal translation would be The rule of the game I love this movie so much I don't even know how to begin to talk about it. is it a comedy? yep. a drama? indeed. a 'dramedy'? thankfully not. a come...

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the state of dental health in these here united states: rotting

2009-11-07T17:47:08Z

at least that was my conclusion after reading the excellent series of articles on dental health by June Thomas of Slate it is long, enlightening and I can't recommend it enough. some key points: - why ist dental care separated from health care? ...

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thirty movies hath november - The Shining (1980)

2009-11-07T03:20:28Z

I'm a complete scaredity-cat when it comes to horror books and movies. I wasn't born that way; I was made to be that way. and I know who to blame: Stephen King. directly to blame in the case of horror literature (a story for another day) and i...

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thirty movies hath november - Touch of Evil (1958)

2009-11-06T04:59:33Z

one of my favorites: a movie written and directed by Orson Welles, who also played the main character...(no, is not this movie, smartypants. you didn't even read the title. be quiet) but unlike that other movie, which all of y'all who taken Fi...

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you. yes, you. what you staring at? stupid punk.

2009-11-05T12:37:21Z

today's woot shirt of the day made me laugh. out loud. may have even snorted a li'l as always, one shirt, one day. and keep yer attitude to yerself. disclaimer: this is not a paid endorsement or otherwise compensated for post. w00t stuf...

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thirty movies hath november - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

2009-11-05T04:26:02Z

what a groundbreaking movie Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was. the movie of a play that many thought impossible to bring to the screen. the first American movie where the word 'goddamn' was said. the movie where Elizabeth Taylor, disheveled, p...

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30 movies hath november - Eat the Peach (1986)

2009-11-05T00:43:20Z

first the bad news: there are no video clips, no web-pages-dedicated-to-it, no film stills, not available on dvd or vhs for rental or purchase, the barest of entries in imdb. ... took me an hour of hard searching and all the google-fu I could mus...

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why Maine? really, why?

2009-11-05T00:06:52Z

what do gay men and women do to you? why the fear? how much longer shall we have to endure? to wake up every morning knowing that we still live "separate and unequal"? how much longer are we going to stand by watching our civil rights being vot...

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